What do we most need to know for the coming week?
How lovely to see my old friend turn up this morning. This is the first card I created for the Gaian Tarot, back in early 2001. I find it especially appropriate that it turns up in a week that will culminate in a Full Moon. Last night as I went to bed, the waxing moon filled my window with silver light filtered through cedar branches. Such grace. "The Moon is constantly changing, and She is always faithful in Her changes."
Blessed be.
Here’s what I wrote in the Gaian Tarot companion book:
When you get this card in a reading . . .
It is time to raise your lunar consciousness. Begin to track the movement of the movement of the moon in the night sky where you live. Where does She rise and where does She set? And at what times of day and night? Which phase is She in tonight?
As you look at the Moon card, which lunar phase draws your eye? Which phase relates to a cur- rent situation? Perhaps this is a new relationship, or time to leave a job. The lunar cycle is a model for any life cycle, whether it is a relationship, a job or a creative project. Knowing your place in this cycle can help put your current issues in perspective.
In addition, this card indicates an awakening of powerful psychic abilities and learning to trust one's intuition. This may be frightening or confusing for those who have depended only on guid- ance of the clear light of rationality. The more familiar we become with the language of dreams, symbol and myth, the more comfortable we can be with the gifts that the Moon has to offer. Keep a dream journal, study the arts of divination and magic, learn to trust your intuition.
What does the Moon card say to you, dear Readers?
Hi Joanna, thank you for your beautiful site and for making it possible for people to get connected to the profundity of the archetypes as you portray them! It is SO relieving an eye-opening to work with these un-patriarchal, earth attuned cards.
The Moon for me... it is funny, because this last new moon my intention was to try and better understand the moon cycles! That new moon fell in the astrological 8th house for me, linked to the energies of Pluto, Scorpio, the Underworld... sexual mysteries, mysteries of death, transformation and rebirth. I am a Cancer and have also a Cancer ascendant, so I am "Moon ruled". I also have my natal Moon in a square to Pluto. Just to explain that these themes appeal so deeply to me... Moon priestesses of the ancient world - and modern ones...
Last year in January, during the Cancer full moon, I watched the movie "The mists of Avalon" - based on the novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley - and it really awoke an immense interest and urge to explore the hidden history of the divine feminine. I have to say it set me on a whole new path.
Thank you for letting me share, and thank you again for your beautiful and profoundly inspiring work!
/Anna
Posted by: Anna | February 22, 2010 at 08:59 AM
I so love this card appearing too... it felt like coming home :)
Last night, walking out from the Birth Centre, my love & I gazed up at the Waxing Moon, and I said to him:
"One more full moon... and then by next full moon, our little one will be here."
Our little one is due just before Easter... in my heart I call her Ostara :)
Deepest blessings to you dear woman!
Posted by: Goddess Leonie | February 22, 2010 at 01:47 PM
Hi,
To me the moon is a deeply emotional card, one to call to the very heart of you. It is the inner voice, the real you that tells you when you are true to yourself and also when you are not acting in your own interests.
When I see this card I know it's time to try to connect to myself either by meditation or taking the time to let those niggling doubts in! They're likely to be trying to tell me something.
Liz xx
Posted by: Liz | February 22, 2010 at 02:35 PM
Anna, you're so welcome! I first read "The Mists of Avalon" back in the early 80's and it was one of the books that set my hair on end because of the portrayal of priestesses. It's one of the books that set me on my journey. Glad to know it's still doing that, all these years later.
Leonie, blessings on your mermaid baby! Ostara would be a lovely name . . .
Liz, I agree with you about the Moon being so deeply emotional. You have a great interpretation there. Thank you!
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